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From: Eric d'Alibut on 20 Jun 2008 13:10 I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. Far be it from I to cast aspersions (as the saying goes) on mousepad, but I would like something more exciting for my external editor. Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to something other than mousepad? Best regards, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Andrei Popescu on 21 Jun 2008 17:20 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. > > Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome > editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. I don't think the default editor is set by Xfce4. > Far be it from I to cast aspersions (as the saying goes) on mousepad, > but I would like something more exciting for my external editor. > > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > something other than mousepad? Try choosing something different with update-alternatives --config editor Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
From: Mark Grieveson on 22 Jun 2008 11:30 On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:03:26 +0000 (UTC) debian-user-digest-request(a)lists.debian.org wrote: > > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > > something other than mousepad? It's been a while since I've used xfce-4, but I think there's a control panel (or board, or window, or something) where you can choose stuff like default editors, browsers, backgrounds, start with or without Gnome or KDE services, etc. The control panel can be accessed via either right clicking, or by xfce-4's start button. You may wish to install gedit, and then use that. For Balsa, and its choice of editors, you may need to look at it's setup in either the hidden directory of your user (/home/youruser/.balsa), or in its setup files within the /etc or /usr/share directories. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Eric d'Alibut on 24 Jun 2008 00:30
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Eric d'Alibut <eric.halibut(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > something other than mousepad? Thanks to those who replied! What I found in Gnome was the file in my home directory: ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list which I could make look like this: [Default Applications] text/plain=xjed.desktop For this to work I made a file 'xjed.desktop' in that dir noted above that looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=xjed Comment= Exec=xjed Terminal=false Type=Application For Xfce4 I replicated those files and dirs, and there was then joy in Mudville. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |